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Offline nagano
 Post subject: Go Census
Post #1 Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 10:54 am 
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I'm familiar with the 2002 Japanese one, but has anything been done since? If so, what are the numbers?

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Offline gaius
 Post subject: Re: Go Census
Post #2 Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 2:44 am 
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Huh? A "go census"? Does that mean all go players in the world need to register with their passports? I'm confused...

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 Post subject: Re: Go Census
Post #3 Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 4:30 am 
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I'm not sure exactly how it was done, but here is an old article by John Fairbairn about it. The article also has a link to the census' page, but it is in Japanese of course. Edit: sorry the link to the study on that page doesn't work anymore. Here's a newer one.

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Offline gcw2009
 Post subject: Re: Go Census
Post #4 Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 2:33 am 
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2008 Go census - 42,425,340 people.
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Post #5 Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 2:37 am 
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Is that 50,000 UK people? I'm somewhat suspicious :P
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Offline Laman
 Post subject: Re: Go Census
Post #6 Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 3:03 am 
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topazg wrote:
Is that 50,000 UK people? I'm somewhat suspicious :P

greatly depends who precisely is counted. Czechia has listed 3000, which is high above number of active (or even tournament-active) players, but i vaguely remember such a figure as being number of people who know the rules. i have no idea how good an estimate it is and if the same criterion applies to the other rows

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 Post subject: Re: Go Census
Post #7 Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 3:08 am 
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Laman wrote:
topazg wrote:
Is that 50,000 UK people? I'm somewhat suspicious :P

greatly depends who precisely is counted. Czechia has listed 3000, which is high above number of active (or even tournament-active) players, but i vaguely remember such a figure as being number of people who know the rules. i have no idea how good an estimate it is and if the same criterion applies to the other rows


If you compare with http://europeangodatabase.eu/EGD/Stats_Country.php the number of people in the EGF database from Czechia and the UK is about the same, while the census lists them with over an order of magnitude difference.

The census also claims both Finland and Norway have about 500 players each. For Finland I think that number may actually be a little low, but I wonder where in Norway those other 450 go players are hiding...
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Post #8 Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 5:00 am 
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See John's remark (http://web.archive.org/web/201105122106 ... ensus.html), and note that something between 1 and 10% (depending on the country of origin) of the 500k CJK population will count as being able to play Go.]

Hmm..just realized that those numbers are based on the corresponding numbers for CJK--I have no idea what the prevalence of go playing is among second generation East Asians.

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